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  • Splay hoofs and palmated antlers they knew, and they flung their customary patience and caution to the wind.

    The Battle of the Fangs 2010

  • Splay hoofs and palmated antlers they knew, and they flung their customary patience and caution to the wind.

    Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010

  • Splay your fingers and press into dough, indenting it and pushing it out towards the sides of the pan much like a cat kneading a blanket until the pan is full.

    Feta and Tomato Focaccia | Baking Bites 2007

  • Splay your fingers and press into dough, indenting it and pushing it out towards the sides of the pan much like a cat kneading a blanket until the pan is full.

    Baking Bites » Print » Feta and Tomato Focaccia 2007

  • News at Eleven: Indeed, Nate Mackey may be the least conventional poet to win the National Book Award since William Carlos Williams took home the first back in 1950 for Paterson, which was put out by the upstart imprint, New Directions, which would go on to publish Splay Anthem more than a half-century later.

    News at Eleven: Indeed, [Nate] Mackey may Rus Bowden 2007

  • Splay your fingers and press into dough, indenting it and pushing it out towards the sides of the pan, much like a cat kneading a blanket, until the pan is full.

    Sage Focaccia | Baking Bites 2005

  • Splay your fingers and press into dough, indenting it and pushing it out towards the sides of the pan, much like a cat kneading a blanket, until the pan is full.

    Baking Bites » Print » Sage Focaccia 2005

  • Splay feet of unusual size, long thin hands, garnished with nails which seldom felt the steel, a wrinkled and puckered visage, the length of which corresponded with that of his person, together with a pair of little sharp bargain-making grey eyes, that seemed eternally looking out for their advantage, completed the highly unpromising exterior of Mr Morton of Milnwood.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • Splay-legged they were, from the weight of these protuberances.

    Growing Pains 2003

  • Splay-legged in the chair, my mother tried to smile.

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

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